Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CCBA sees the Harvard study as another attempt to grab onto the fading strength of the Bakke decision...
Joseph P. Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy clan, wanted badly for his sons to conquer Washington. But he didn't much like the term politics, a word that opened too easily onto whole vistas of abandoned ideals and fishy dealings, something he was sensitive about as a businessman accused of bootlegging and stock manipulations. What Joe preferred was the more sanitary phrase public service. All the same, Joe's main notion of public service was the kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework...
...Eshkar and Kaiser fine-tuned the process to capture precise dance steps. To start, they used motion-capture technology to record the movements of a live dancer with digital video cameras. They then used 3-D animation software called Character Studio and 3D Studio Max to map the movements onto their own digital drawings and render the final, ghostlike images. The finished video is projected onto a 28-ft.-tall, meshlike gauze draped in front of the stage. It's reflective enough for the projections to appear vibrant, yet porous enough to leave the live dancers, in their shimmering silver...
Neelan was killed when a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body leapt from a motorcycle onto Neelan's car in a busy intersection, according to the Daily News in Colombo. Police are still looking for the motorcycle driver...
...grave breaches of U.S. nuclear security. But once the dust had settled, it hadn?t been clearly established that China had actually stolen comprehensive design information, and the only substantive charge against Lee was that he had breached security procedures by downloading sensitive information from a secure computer system onto an unsecured one ?- an action his lawyers argue should be understood as an absent-minded oversight by a man whose job involved downloading large bodies of data, and who worked on a computer system recently divided into a secured and an unsecured sector. Such breaches of procedure might ordinarily lead...